Hire anywhere in Africa, without setting up anywhere in Africa
We employ your people across the continent on compliant local contracts, run payroll in local currency, and carry every statutory filing — so you can hire in Lagos, Nairobi or Johannesburg this month, not after a year of entity paperwork.
Three ways to employ in Africa
Start with EOR where you have no company, add PEO where you do, and keep one team running payroll across all of it.
Africa EOR
We are the legal employer in-country. You direct the work. Contracts, social security, tax, leave and offboarding are ours.
Explore EOR →Africa PEO
You already have an entity. We take over HR, payroll and compliance under a co-employment or outsourced HR model, so your local team runs cleanly.
Explore PEO →Africa payroll
Multi-country payroll for your own entities: gross-to-net in each jurisdiction, statutory remittances, one consolidated report.
Explore payroll →Fifty-four countries, fifty-four rulebooks
There is no “Africa” employment law. South Africa’s BCEA, Nigeria’s Pension Reform Act, Kenya’s Housing Levy and Egypt’s social insurance regime have nothing in common except that each will fine you for getting it wrong. The value of an EOR here is knowing all of them.
Local knowledge
In-country payroll and HR specialists who file with SARS, FIRS, KRA and their counterparts every month.
Hands-on attention
A named account manager for your whole African footprint, whether it is one hire or eighty across twelve countries.
Speed and flexibility
Days to a compliant hire in our core markets. Scale up, move people between countries, or step back without dissolving anything.
Lasting commitment
Clients that start with one EOR hire tend to end up with entities and payroll in three countries. We stay for that.
From order to first day in about a week
- Scope the hireCountry, role, salary, benefits, start date and right-to-work status. We confirm the loaded monthly cost — salary, employer contributions and our fee — with the assumptions written down.
- Local employment contractDrafted to the country’s labour code and in its official language where required, issued to your hire and signed electronically.
- Registrations and payroll setupTax, social security, pension and any sector levies registered in the employee’s name; payroll configured in local currency.
- Employee startsYou manage the work; we run payroll, remit contributions, keep leave records and handle the exit when the time comes.
For a citizen or permanent resident in one of our core markets. Countries where we employ through a vetted local partner, and any work-permit case, take longer — we tell you how long before you sign.
- Order signed, scoping callDay 1
- Contract issued and signedDay 2–4
- Statutory registrations completeDay 4–9
- Payroll live, employee startsDay 5–10
Where the hiring is happening
Most of the demand we see is concentrated in a dozen markets: South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt, Ghana, Morocco, Côte d’Ivoire, Senegal, Rwanda, Uganda, Tanzania and Mauritius. Between them they cover the continent’s technology, finance, energy, logistics and development-sector hiring.
Each has its own employer contributions, its own filing calendar, its own currency and its own rules on fixed-term contracts, probation and termination. On the EOR page we set out what an employer owes in six of them, so that you can see the range before you ask for a quote.
Compare us against everyone else
We rank ourselves on the same criteria we apply to competitors, and say where they beat us.
Guide
Best Africa EOR companies
Ten providers scored on country coverage, own entities versus partners, payroll accuracy, transparency and support.
Read the ranking →Guide
Best Africa PEO providers
Co-employment and outsourced HR for companies that already have African entities.
Read the ranking →Guide
Best Africa payroll providers
Multi-country African payroll compared on statutory accuracy, software and service.
Read the ranking →Tell us about the hire
One person or twenty, resident or relocating, permanent or fixed-term. Describe the situation and we come back within one working day.
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Questions people ask before their first African hire?
Short answers here; longer ones on the service pages.
Is Employer of Record legal across Africa?
In most countries, yes, as an ordinary employment relationship between the worker and a local company that provides their services to you. A few jurisdictions regulate labour brokering or temporary employment services specifically — South Africa’s Labour Relations Act, for example, deems a placed worker the client’s employee after three months for certain purposes. We structure each country’s arrangement to fit its law and tell you where the constraints are.
Do you employ through your own entities or through partners?
Both, and we always say which. In our core markets we employ through our own registered companies. Elsewhere we use vetted local partners under our contract and our service standards, with the partner named in your agreement.
How quickly can someone start?
Five to ten working days for a citizen in a core market. Partner countries and work-permit cases take longer — anywhere from three weeks to several months for a permit in some jurisdictions.
In what currency do we pay you, and the employee?
The employee is paid in local currency into a local bank account, as tax and social-security law requires. You receive one invoice, in USD, EUR, GBP or ZAR, covering every country.
What happens when we want our own entity?
You incorporate, and your people transfer across with continuity of service where local law allows. We can run the payroll for the new entity under our payroll service, or manage the HR under PEO, so nothing changes for the employee.